Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Podcast Episode: GAA Drama And Fine Margins
Pip: Boylan Talks Sport — where the margins are razor-thin, the heartbreak is detailed, and someone is always four points up with two minutes to go. Mara: Brendan covers a lot of ground this week — a senior football defeat that raises uncomfortable questions, a penalty shootout that he thinks never should have happened, and…
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Selections for Dundalk – May 26th 2026
5.07: WOLFPACK – EW – (KEITHEN KENNEDY (5)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.42: JAMESTOWN (LUKE MCATEER/DAVID MARNANE) 6.17: COOL AZUL (RONAN WHELAN/ANDY OLIVER) 6.48: LET HIM FLY – EW – (ADAM CAFFREY/NOEL MEADE) 7.18: CITE FLORALE – EW – (BILLY LEE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 7.48: EASTERN WIND – EW – (SADHBH TORMEY (7)/TOM MCCOURT) 8.18: MANO CHICAGO (BEN COEN/JOHNNY…
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Selections for Ballinrobe – May 26th 2026
4.55: WITCHES FAMILIAR (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.30: IMMEDIATE EFFECT (DANNY GILLIGAN/GORDON ELLIOTT) 6.00: THE STORE BOY (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.30: JERRY FROM KERRY – EW – (JACK GILLIGAN (5)/PAUL GILLIGAN) 7.00: YOU MAKE ME SMILE – EW – (PADDY O’BRIEN (5)/PAT FAHY) 7.30: BEAN SAIBHRE – EW – (PETER SMITHERS (7)/AIDAN HOWARD) 8.00: LOW…
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There’s probably no perfect system
Chances are this corner wasn’t the only location in which there was an almost sorrowful pondering as to whether we will see TJ Reid in the black and amber again. When somebody has been on the ‘circuit’ as the Shamrocks superstar, those thoughts ruminate every season when the Cats’ campaign comes to an end. What’s…
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Selections for Ballinrobe – May 25th 2026
4.30: DADDY LONG LEGS (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.05: DE JOUR EN JOUR (KEITH DONOGHUE/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 5.35: JACOVEC CAVERN – EW – (RICHIE CONDON (5)/PAUL HENNESSY) 6.05: SMOOTH TOM – EW – (CIAN QUIRKE/ANDY SLATTERY) 6.35: CONYERS HILL – EW – (ALAN O’SULLIVAN (7)/PAUL NOLAN) 7.05: SUPREME JET (PHILIP ENRIGHT/OLIVER MCKIERNAN) 7.35: A STORIN (ALAN RYAN…
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Selections for Curragh – May 24th 2026
1.45: SUN GODESS (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 2.15: GREAT BARRIER REEF (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 2.45: MAYFLOWER – EW – (JACK KEARNEY (3)/STEPHEN THORNE) 3.20: CITY OF MEMPHIS (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 3.55: BAY CITY ROLLER – EW – (OISIN MURPHY/GEORGE SCOTT, IN GB) 4.30: AMERICAN QUEEN – EW – (BILLY LOUGHNANE/RICHARD HUGHES, IN GB) 5.05: PRETTY OMAGH…
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It’s the ones that blindside you that sting the most
MEATH…1-24 CORK…0-30 Reference to being blindsided is not meant in terms of the overall result. These teams are very evenly matched. With never more than a kick of the ball between them. So it was again, with the irony being that John Cleary’s crew didn’t need a goal to pull off a win that –…
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Selections for Curragh – May 23rd 2026
1.20: SWITCHING SIDES – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSIE HARRINGTON) 1.55: NYRA (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.30: IRON FIST – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSIE HARRINGTON) 3.05: MONTAASSIB – EW – (BILLY LOUGHNANE/WILLIAM HAGGAS, IN GB) 3.40: GSTAAD (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 4.15: AMADEUS MOZART – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 4.50: ZENFORD – EW – (RORY MULLIGAN…
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There’s no need for such cruelty
MEATH… 1-16 KILDARE… 2-13 * *Kildare win 5-3 on penalties There’s no need for such cruelty to be used to decide games of such magnitude on penalties. Another case of the GAA hierarchy bowing to the whingers. ‘Fixing’ something that wasn’t even broken. Right here, right now, let it be made abundantly clear, these misgivings…
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Royals shuffle the deck in search of Cork conquest
After what feels like the longest five weeks in history – to me at least – Meath’s senior footballers return to championship action with a clean slate tomorrow evening in the first round of the All Ireland SFC when the latest chapter in the current incarnation of the age old rivalry will play out in…
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